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Hubs has a few pics of the little one spotted in our back garden,.......awwwww....it must have sniffed out the last remaining summer strawberries because it trundled rapidly down to just outside the greenhouse and snuffled around in the remaining slug eaten berries, then wandered back up for a tasty slice of cheesy pizza (probably not good for a hedgehog tummy), then I put a saucer of water with a tiny slosh of milk out (walking very quietly and carefully) and the snout snuffled and the paws came waddling down, it happily and busily drank, ruminated quietly over a small slug and toddled happily away.

The pics are cute!

There is a famous "hedgehog hospital" here in Italy, in the province of Reggio Emilia. Vets working there advise against feeding hedgehogs with pork, ham, sausage and salami.
Almonds are poisonous to hedgehogs and peanuts, nuts, walnuts, etc. should be better broken into small pieces (otherwise the hedgehog could die of suffocation).
The best diet is based on fresh fruit; dried and tinned kitten/puppies food mixed with water; minced beef/veal/white meat; hard-boiled egg (seldom); worms and grasshoppers purchaseable into fishing shops (insects that we can find in our gardens are not so good because they could bring parasites).
The little european hedgehog I am bringing up loves mashed potatoes and carrots!